Are We Scared of Resteeming?
Are We Scared of Resteeming?
I was just thinking about this. I have seen a lot of people who hasn't resteem anything. Maybe not anything, but they almost never resteem. Why? What are we afraid of? That it will ruin our feed? That we will lose one out of 945 followers? That somebody will earn more money than you would? Why?
Resteeming and Steemit
Resteem can mean a lot of things: That something was funny, that something needed more attention, that someone needed support, that something was interesting.
When you resteem you are basically saying to everybody else: I liked that post, maybe you will aswell
On Steemit we are supposed to support eachother. That's why we upvote. We are saying: Here! Take some money that I have no idea where came from!
On steemit we are supposed to support eachother. That why we resteem. We are saying: Here! I shared this so you can have some money from other people that have no idea where they came from
But most important
By resteeming we are rewarding the author. We are thanking him/her for the time they spent on writing that specific article. We are rewarding with money by upvoting. We are rewarding with love and respect by commenting. We are rewarding with everything we can give by resteeming.
When we resteem we are rewarding the author, while supporting the life of this community.
I am not saying you should resteem everything you see. Neither do I. I probably resteem 5 post a week. I made this post to inspire myself to resteem some more.
An inspiration to us all must be @craig-grant , @andrarchy and @fyrstikken Just to mention a few.
Check them out. They resteem like it was their life. Love it!
I curate all day so resteeming good undervalued posts really helps me out. - Appreciate it when you guys do that.
Yes wow! You have no posts? How come?
Some people are invested in the success of others.
Huge respect for that!
@thejohafiles I'm new to steemit... Hi , since you don't blog your making your steem power and dollars just by comments? Also do you know if re-steeming you loose value in your steem power and dollars?
I have to say, I've never been keen on resteeming and remember back to the old days when it didn't exist. As a rough rule of thumb I avoid following anyone who does a lot of resteeming, because I want to decide who to follow and just see their posts.
I do have a few exceptions, but they are exceptional curators. Otherwise I think resteeming is massively overused, by many people.
Thank you for replying. I don't think we should resteem all the time, but I don't see once pr day being a problem, if it fits what you also are writing about :) Anyway. It's nice to have some discussions going on :)
I think as a rough rule of thumb once a day would be fine, but there are people who resteem 10 in a row, and that I'm not keen on...
Agree! :)
Valuable info, it will encourage us to resteem more and make the community more lively. Resteemed this post... you're a good influencer :)
Thank you very much! I appreciate it! :)
Good post @arsenal49! Up-voted, followed and, of course ;) re-steemed
Thanks a lot! Followed back :)
You have started an interesting topic. I guess uneasiness stems from the fact that with a few resteems on a Steemit page, you cover your original posts, and people do not like to do that. Busy.org has that solved through the separate resteem tag, and maybe that should be introduced into Steemit API.
Upvote & resteem for you.
Thank you for commenting. That's very true, unless you post A LOT! I have to check out busy.org and see what they are up to.
I like to re-steem, but it would be nice if you could on steemit be able to say why you re-steemed, similar to what you can do on Facebook. Just to let folks know why your re-steemed and to better direct your followers that might be interested in that particular post.
I think it will be a possibility in a few months time :)
That is my thought, too, @da-dawn :)
Additionally, resteeming something you have upvoted could also boost your curation reward especially if you have a large following. So it doesn't really need to be a selfless act either.
Very true! Very good point!
I'm sorry I'm just seeing this now! Great post and thanks so much for the kind words. I really appreciate it
You're welcome! :) Thank you for the resteems. I appreciate it!
@abcdoctor got the message and resteemed the post.
Thank you so much!
Resteemed 🙃
Thank you very much for showing your support!